Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Industrial-grade buoys are being installed to prevent unauthorized crossings, but the environmental impact is unknown.

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the center routinely perform forensic firearms identification, meaning ...

Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bancel said in January that the company, known for its Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA technology, or mRNA, doesn’t plan to invest in new, late-stage vaccine trials. He ...

Kathryn Paige Harden's "Original Sin" explores the genetic roots of sin and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.

In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

Lewis A. Grossman’s book, “Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America,” was published over four years ago, but in many ways it seems to have anticipated the enthusiasm of today’s ...